This commercial was during Superbowl 2004 and is the first time I saw the Ford GT. During Google searches for the Ford GT is when I found Jalopnik. 

It’s so simple:

Hertz is trying to imitate Enterprise but getting some of the details wrong:

I’m shocked that after reading these stories that you would even have them at the bottom and not right off.  I will never, ever, use Hertz again.

I can sense a new Ad campaign:

The bottom? If there’s no other choice, I’m walking.

“While converted to automatic, the Wagon still sports its clutch pedal and a tall shifter to mimic the original manual style. That’s a nice touch.”

Nominative determinism is a position my wife and I like to try out on special nights.

Came here to mention American Chopper. What a god-awful group of people.

It may have been technically about motorcycles, but American Chopper has to be at the top of the list. It was the progenitor of every one of the terrible, formulaic, faux-reality, artificial-deadline-y, overdramatized custom car shop shows that followed, from American Hot Rod all the way to Counting Cars and every…

Until a manufacturer is willing to make a convertible El Camino, citizens of the world will have to take things into their own hands.

When Canada starts looking like the United States, western civilization is over.

Hard to lobby when all the bridges to DC have collapsed.

It boggles my mind that these fuckers have their heads so far up their asses that they can’t see that they’re playing politics with the collapse of the country. It’s there in plain sight, every day. There’s nothing left to debate. Put money in infrastructure *now*, no matter what it takes, because that bill is only…

Take your damned star.

Of course they knew. But they also knew that if they raised taxes to fix any of the crumbling infrastructure, they’d all lose their jobs and be raked over the coals for being freedom hating tax and spend politicians.

Hey David Tracy, you see all that rust?  I have a bridge to sell you.

Why? At least belts are generally designed to be easily changed. Timing chains wear out too, sooner than you expect on too many cars, and they are a lot harder to deal with. Change the damned belt on time and you will never have a problem. Heck the belt interval on my Volvo is 10 years or 120K miles.

If it had taken weeks or months to find this car, I would be a little more sympathetic to the police.

I’m far from a law enforcement bootlicker, but resources are a big factor for cold cases or newer cases where the leads have simply dried up. I really don’t think (in all cases) it’s that the cops don’t give a shit, it’s that other things start to take priority.